Product Description

Flora wants to be a normal teenager. But her wealthy and domineering father won't let her. He wants to keep her locked up in his mansion forever. Her anger and rebellion grow. The sexually cruel and evil ideas of the Marquis de Sade feed the anger and rebellion, which turn to murder and perversion. She is reaching out for love, every kind of love. But it's one disappointment after another. Rejection. Finally, she turns to God and finds spiritual guidance ... but can she escape her dark past?

This new revised and improved version of A Young Girl's Crimes is uncensored and uncut. Originally published in 2002, its first publisher had his editors make various cuts in the text to content which they deemed offensive. Because he was eager to publish, the author agreed to these changes at the time, against his better judgment. These parts have been faithfully restored and the full and complete version of the book is here re-published for the first time. Bargain-priced.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #909480 in Books
• Published on: 2008-05-05
• Binding: Paperback
• 132 pages

Review
...so gripping, for long spaces of time one hardly knows that one is reading. You're just absorbed in it. -- Curled Up With A Good Book

Before the release of Crippled Dreams many were still raving and debating about David Rehak's first book A Young Girl's Crimes which was powerful and controversial -- the washingtonpost.com

I think David Rehak may be the best of the new generation of budding novelists. Time will tell. He is yet to be discovered. But his debut effort is truly impressive. -- Wordy Bird Magazine

Mr. Rehak has penned a suspense-filled novel that will keep a reader on edge and unable to stop until the surprising end. -- BookStar Review

From the Publisher
When a lonely and isolated girl named Flora starts to experiment with taboos, she finds herself opening up to a whole new forbidden world that tells her there are no rules. Flora represents teenage moral anarchy that is borne of the fact that she has never been shown real love. Thus, she tries to find satisfaction in hidden desires and deadly sins to fill the void of lovelessness and angry hate. Ultimately it is the bad consequences of her actions that lead her to the light, lead her to the saving grace of divine and eternal love.

From the Inside Flap
Flora wants to be a normal teenager. But her wealthy and domineering father won’t let her. He wants to keep her locked up in his mansion forever. Her anger and rebellion grow. The sexually cruel and evil ideas of the Marquis de Sade feed the anger and rebellion, which turn to murder and perversion. She is reaching out for love, every kind of love. But it’s one disappointment after another. Rejection. Finally, she turns to God and finds spiritual guidance ... but can she escape her dark past?

Customer Reviews

Good ideas; Dead on Arrival
111 pages of a story with a lot of promise, and evidence that Rehak had definite talent and good ideas. But he tries to do too much in a book that doesn't know if it's a philosophical foray or a television drama. The one lesbian sex scene has its place in the book, but Rehak handles it like Penthouse Forum. 111 pages is not enough room to have philosophy, cliche television moments, and bland erotica.

What Rehak shows is ambition in his effort to bring together interesting ideas, his writing style is clear, and he is organized in his thinking. He shows himself as a writer trying to challenge himself and his readers. Lots of promise here, but what is delivered is subpar and dragged down by corny plot twists, and overambition . However, with all sincerity, I think Rehak will improve and his second book should be worth reading.

Compelling, thought provoking, incredible!
This book had been on my to-read pile for a very long time when I decided to give it a whirl. I cannot believe it took me so long to read it! A Young Girl's Crimes is a gripping, thought provoking tale of a teenager who loses her innocence in the most disturbing ways. Flora is a girl who has had everything in life -- after all, her father is wealthy and influential -- save her freedom. Her father is domineering and abusive and does whatever is possible to keep Flora locked up in the mansion. But Flora rebels in the most disarming ways. She seeks love and attention in all the wrong places, only to feel emptiness afterwards. In an attempt to clean up her act, she turns to God to find spiritual guidance and escape her inner demos. However, the odyssey to self-discovery has just begun...

I love the dark language in this novel. Flora's thirst for love and acceptance is gripping beyond compare. I was able to feel a great deal of compassion for this character -- even when I found her behavior appalling at times. I like how the author uses elements of Marquis de Sade within the story. Marquis de Sade is one of my favorite authors, and the fact that the works of said author are incorporated in this story made this novel all the more enjoyable for me. David Rehak is a brilliant author and I look forward to reading his other books. In the meantime, I recommend A Young Girl's Crimes most highly. It is one of my favorite reads this year thus far. He uses the sort of dark language that I adore in this sort of fiction. Again, I have no idea why it took me so long to read this compelling, thought provoking novel, but am sure glad I did!

An early masterpiece
...This is the least boring novel I have ever read,... The clear writing style flows like water and the storytelling technique is perfect and perfectly engrossing. The story itself grabs you like it's hard to describe in words and you won't be able to put this book down, whether you're an avid or occasional reader. It's just that good and suspenseful. Secondly I think the spiritual redemption in the story is obvious...in this tale of murder, child abuse and incest... I guess there are those who will be appalled by the detailed descriptions, but not me. I was intrigued and found it quite educational. However, I wouldn't recommend this book to teens or "young adults." This is clearly a book for grown adults who can handle and understand this subject-matter. Also, I feel the characterization would have been even more well-rounded in a longer book. All that said, this is a truly amazing little novel, certainly one of the finest I've ever read, and the most exciting. I was literally on the edge of my seat on every page because the story develops so fast and interesting. It will be interesting to see what Rehak comes out with next, how similar or different it will be from this first one. I know I'll be first in line to snatch up a copy.